Corrected two completely different problems, and those are both interesting points to record:
1) It is, in retrospect, not true that an Experia Box V10 means that you cannot set static IPs. At least in Ubuntu you can opt for some sort of hybrid formulation in /etc/netplan, by defining IPs as well as letting DHCP be active. Yippie!
The switch is already a fact, a day earlier than announced. We are transferring our internet (and also TV and telephone) from Ziggo to NLEx. The latter is cheaper and we are done with Ziggo's selective disconnection behavior.
Well the (renewed) server was running fine, under Ubuntu 18.04 and Webmin 1.930 combined with Virtualmin 6.07. The vast majority of panels will complain if you upgrade Ubuntu to version 19.04. Only TinyCP continued to run seamlessly. I can now conclude that the latter also applies to Virtualmin and Webmin. We have arrived in the Disco version of Ubuntu again! Immediately installed PHP version 7.3 and discovered how you can link a certain website to a certain PHP version in Virtualmin.
Well, finally the reshaping of the RAID on the home server is ready. Took about 34 hours. But now the damaged RAID-10 has been converted to a fresh and well-active RAID-5. The server cabinet is screwed shut and (carefully!) put in place in the cupboard. As a server, it is less powerful than before, it has less memory and one less hard drive. But in hindsight, the old server was a bit overkill, and this one will do just fine.
My first impressions about the causes of the homeserver woes were unfortunately incorrect. The problem was different and worse than I first thought. The disk that failed was not the #4 that was in the swappable position, but the #3. This is very strange, because nothing else had happened to it, not even when the server was turned around. In addition, replacing the memory didn't help at all. So the motherboard was broken and also damaged a hard drive beyond repair. Cause?
No, the home server is not allergic to vitamins, on the contrary. It purred like a real charm! Once that was successful, I did another major intervention in "my" closet. Yes, our IT mess is in a cupboard, somewhere in the house, which is connected to the power grid and with an Ethernet cable also to the IT world. The server normally doesn't need a monitor, keyboard, or anything else, just those two cables: power and ethernet.
As I posted in the previous blog, I was ultimately quite satisfied with Webuzo, despite all sorts of quirks. It remains difficult to master this type of complex software within a short period of time. My biggest problem with Webuzo, however, remains the cost. Based on the test, I don't say "I don't care about those costs...", it's not that good. And if I ever get rich, I'd rather spend my money on a product like cPanel, which also has the Softaculous Apps Installer and seems a lot more robust and simple.
While browsing the world of control panels, I came across Webuzo, a panel from the makers of Softaculous. I'm familiar with that soft app, because it's one of the most important elements of CPanel. Webuzo is an extremely powerful panel that has the added advantage that you have access to a multitude of installation scripts from Softaculous. Only... it's not free. But I can try it for free for a month, and that's what I'm doing right now.
Our home server runs under Ubuntu 19.04 and the control panel TinyCP. That was so on June 16. and is so now. So nothing changed? Well, a lot has happened and it's good to record it here.
Something different!
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